Improved stump-extracstor



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GEORGE L. 4HOWLAND AND WILLIAM M. HOWLAND, or TorsHAM,

MAINE.

Letters Patent No; 102,544, dated May, 3, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of `the same To 'all whom it vmay conce/rn: I

Be it known that we, GEOGRE L. HOWLAND and WLLLIAM M. HOWLAND, of Topsham, in the county of Sagadahoc and Stateof Maine, have invented-a sists in a combination on a portable frame of a vibrating guiding-frame, a hoisting-bar, a pair of gripepawls, operating-levers and adjusting-springs, the latler, for shifting the action of the, pawls to cause them to-raise or lower the bar, all as hereinafter specified.

' Figure l is a side elevation of' our improved stump extractor.

Figure 2 is a partial sectional el taken on the line x-x of g. 3.;

Figu'e 3 is a section of the same, t'aken on the line y y, of iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate'coiresponding parts.

In this instance the flame/is composed of the two legs A andthe leg B, hooked together at thevtop by the long crotohed and bent hook G and the swivel D.

E is a metal frame suspended on the hook C by the pivot-bolts F.

G is the square hoistingbar arranged to slide up and down through suitable holes in the top and bottom of the frame E; v

H represents gripe-pawls with square holes through which the bar G passes; they are suspended by rods.

I from the short arms of the levers K pivoted on the axis L, and connected at their long e'nds tothe vibrating hand-lever M by the rods N, one on each side of its axis, so that when one moves one way the other moves the other.

eration of the same,

The said gripe-pawls are also connected by small rods l O to spring-levers F, also pivoted on the axisv L, and connected to the bar Q on the leg B, arranged to slide up and down thereon.

When this barQ is shoved np, the springlevers press the pawls down and canse them to gripe the bar as soon as the'levexsK begin to draw them up, thereby causing the bar .tobe raised by the alternate np-and.

down movement of the pawls, and when the bar Q is shoved down the springs have a lifting action on the pawls, which prevents their griping the bar until -near the end of the upward movement of the levers,

so that the further upward movement will lift the bar ont of the gripe of the pawls below, which being thereby freed will rise on the bar, while itis lowered byfthe other until near the end of its upward movement,

when, as before, this one will gripe and force the bar from the other at the lowei`- position, and soon letting the bar down.

It will be seen, therefore, that the springs shift the pawls readily to canse them to raise or lower the bar Y as may be required.

The swinging-frame gives the bar Afreedom to work obliquely on eitherl side of avertical plane, and in case it requires to vibrate perpendicnlarly thereto, the hook and leg K will vibrate in that direction. Having thus described our invention,

Vle claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the lifting-bar, the gripingpawls, levers, working-levers, rods, and the shiftingsprings, substantially as specied.

' 2. The combination with the crotched hook and lifting-bar of the' swinging frame, substantially as specified. GEORGE L. HOWLAND.

WILLIAM M. HOWLAND. Titness'esz SWANSY WILSON,

CHARLES W. Winsor. 

